Improvement in suspenders



vl. W. WATTLES.

Suspenders.

Patented March 17, 1874.

UNITED STA'I'ES PATENT OFFICE.

JosnPH w. wA'rTLns, or oANToN, MAssAoHUsnTTs.

IMPROVEMENT IN SUSPE'NDERS.

specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 148,635, dated March 17, 1874 application filed February 21, 1874.

To all 'whom it may concert:

Be it known that I, J osnPH W. WATTLEs, of Canton, of the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Suspenders; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a rear view of a pair of suspenders provided with my improvement. Fi g. 2 is a transverse section taken through Vthe two back rings and the back connection. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section taken through one of the back button-straps, the ring, and a portion of the shoulder-strap.

The nature of my improvement consists in two rings, the shoulder-straps, the extensile back connection, and the two back buttonstraps, arranged and combined or connected as hereinafter explained and as represented.

In the drawings, A A' denote the shoulderstraps, each provided, as usual, with front button-straps. Each strap A A', at its rear end, is looped, by a connection-clasp, a, of leather, to one of two rings, B B', connected by an extensile Strap, O, which, at one end, is fastened to one ring, Bf. The strap goes through a slide, b, and thence through the opposite ring B, and, at or near its other end, such strap is fastened to 'the cross-bar of the slide b. The back button-straps D D' are also looped in the twol rings, and run through and connected to slides c c', as is the strap O, the whole constituting a cheap and neat combination of the shoulder-straps, the back buttonstraps, and the extensile connection-Strap of the two shoulder-straps.

I claim as my invention in suspenders- The two rings B B' the shoulder-straps A A', the connection-Strap O, and the back buttonstraps, arranged and combined substantially as shown and described.

JOSEPH W. WATTLES. Witnesses:

THos. LONERGAN,. T. B. WATTLEs. 

